Installing apps to external drive fails "unable to be installed at this location." Why?

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November 21, 2024
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Hi,

I've been trying to set the preference in Creative Cloud to install apps to another location on an external drive, on which I have numerous other programs. But it refuses to install Adobe apps there, giving me the following error (see image).

I have seen other folks say that they've been able to do this but for some reason, my system just won't do it.

I'm running a Mac Mini with Sonoma, and have numerous other apps on my hard drive that work fine. It's not encrypted. It runs the standard Mac format, has more than 40GB free,

I even tried creating an "Apps" folder on the drive to see if it would install there, but same error.

Any ideas, friends? Thanks!

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Ben M

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Can you try disabling auto-update? I don't think auto-update can be enabled if the apps are on an external drive as the drive may not always be connected resulting in an error.